The first in a series of three lectures by Anselm Hollo discussing the history of Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the landscape of American poetics in the early twentieth century, and definitions of poetics from Louis Zukofsky, Charles Bernstein, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Ed Dorn. Includes a lengthy question and answer session. (Parts 2 and 3 are included on 01P009 and 01P011.)